Biography

American dancer and choreographer whose exotic looks, voluptuous body, girl-next-door manner and seductive dance style brought her into the public eye with her debut on the popular TV show "Dancing with the Stars." On the show she is one of the dance professionals who trains a celebrity how to dance and competes for points with other similarly matched couples. She and her partners, Nick Lachey and Emmitt Smith, won the competition in the second and third season competitions respectively. The middle of three girls, she claims Filipino, Russian and Irish heritage, with her mother, Rosario Bautista, lending Cheryl her large brown almond-shaped eyes. Cheryl came to dancing early in life, entering her first professional competiton at age 11. In 2005 she won three dance competiton awards and attracted scouts of "Dancing With the Stars." Since then she has become one of the most popular of the professionals.